Austin Child Services
Residential Treatment Center
Our facility, located in North Austin on ten acres, is a warm, neighborhood environment with three residential cottages. The Center provides 27 beds for girls between the ages of 7 and 18, who are in need of 24-hour therapeutic care at the Specialized or Intense level. On-campus schooling is available as well as a 1:4 staff to child ratio, a highly structured program, and a well-trained and educated staff who provide care and nurturing to our children. Girls have the opportunity to move through our continuum of care from the residential treatment center to our therapeutic group homes and into one of our foster family homes.
Therapeutic Group Homes
For 22 girls ages 7 to 18 who are at the Moderate or Specialized level, we have three agency staffed therapeutic group homes. Each group home provides the girls with a more normal family setting, the opportunity to attend public school or our on-campus school, and a 1:6 staff to child ratio. Group homes provide a transition from a residential treatment setting to either a foster home or independent living.
Foster & Adoption Program
Foster Families
For boys and girls, ages birth to age 18, we provide safe, nurturing, healing families. Our program is therapeutic in that we can serve children at the Basic, Moderate or Specialized level. Our therapists are on staff at our agency and provide both the therapy for the child, multi-family groups for our families and training for our foster parents.
Foster Adopt Families
Our foster parents often decide to adopt the children they are fostering when the child's parental rights are terminated. Some families come to us with a specific intent to foster-adopt. Either way, we are excited to complete our continuum of care by providing "forever families" for our children.
Adoption Families
We facilitate adoptions for families who want to adopt a child or children who are in the foster care system and who are waiting for a permanent home. We help families through the adoption process by matching the strengths of the family with the needs of the children being considered
for adoption and by partnering with the families to complete the process.